CONTROL PANEL
All accounts come with our Control
Panel (cpanel). You can access your control panel at:
http://www.yourdomain.com/controlpanel/
or you may use, http://www.domain.com:2082/
(This will not be active until your domain has been
transferred to our nameservers.)
until then you will want to use
the IP assigned to you when your account was set up.
Virtual IP
accounts that do not come with static IPs can access their control
panel this way until your domain has been registered or
transferred:
http://216.74.70.96/~yourusername/cpanel/
or http://216.74.70.96/~yourusername:2082
You will be asked to enter your user
/ pass to gain access to your configuration. The control panel is
pretty much self explanatory however a little information on the
usage of each section is included below if you get confused along
the way. All features are not available with all account
plans:
Password
Changes
This changes the passwords for your account,
please make sure you close all existing windows that you have open
for the Control panel.
Note:This only changes your FTP and Control
Panel password. If you use FrontPage, this does not change your
FrontPage password.
Shopping
Cart
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Shell
Session
Network
Tools
Access
Stats
Provide access to many different programs that
will analyze your access logs and show you more information about
your web sites traffic.
Database
File
Manager
Allows you to modify the files in your web site
in real-time via a web based interface. You can perform many
commands such as chmod as well as actually edit the file and save it
directly to the web server.
Error Editor
This
is about as much customization as you can get folks! This section
lets you customize the errors that your users will see instead of
the generic server errors. You could setup a 404 page to redirect
users to your main web site instead of the default dead document.
Subdomain
Manager
Web Page
Protection
Web page protection is used to limit access
to any directory to users who enter a user/pass combo. To
protect a directory within your account:
1.) Click on that dir.
2.) Enter a user / pass for access
3.) Click add. You can add
as many users as you wish to this file. This protection is for
resources accessed via the WEB only, this will not create an FTP
user.
Mime Types
A MIME
type is basically what tells the web server that a .html document is
a web page, and that a .gif doc is a gif image etc. If you
would like to configure a custom MIME type such as making .pictures
a gif image file you would enter it here.
Chat Room
Allows
you to access your personal chat server and supplies the code for
you to use the product on your own site. If you would prefer a java
chat, we have a special version of the Melange chat
system installed on our servers. This allows you to utilize
Melange on your site without any installation whatsoever.
Simply place a link to the URL below on ANY page in your site, and
you will be brought to your private chat room. Below is the
URL to your Melange chat room for :yourdomain.com
http://somedomain.com/cgi-sys/mchat.cgi?channel=somedomain.com
(Substitute your actual domain for
"yourdomain.com")
For more information on using the Melange
chat system, please see the following URL:
http://melange.terminal.at/doc/usrcommands.html
E-MAIL
E-mail
control panel allows instant creation of e-mail POP3, forwards, and
aliases.
A POP3 account is a stand alone incoming e-mail
account. if you create u: john p: doe it all mail sent to
john@domain.com will be routed to the joe e-mail account. The user
joe can then check this mail by login into mail.domain.com using his
user name and password. REMEMBER: all user names automatically have
a determined amount of letters of the domain name appended to the
beginning of the user name. So if john was a another domain user the
user would use mail.somedomain.net as his incoming e-mail server and
use powerjohn as his log in name to retrieve mail sent to john@homepage.net
An alias sends mail sent to one address to another POP3
account within your domain. For example if our recently created john
account was going to receive all mail sent to sales@ourname.com we
would setup sales as an alias to john. Note: by default all names
not configured to the root account. So if you sent a message to
testl@domain.com it would be sent to your main root account unless
you had set it up as an alias, forward or POP3. A forward account
sends mail sent to user@domain.com to an address completely out of
your domain. For example if john had an AOl account and wanted to
check all his mail there you could setup john to forward to
john3435@aol.com.
FTP Accounts
Accounts Used for
managing access accounts to your web space. The creation of an FTP
account will allow users to log into a sub directory from your main
account without gaining access to your main accounts. Sessions show
any users that are currently logged into your domain.
Settings
allow you to modify access to your anonymous FTP site.
(Not
Available on Virtual IP Hosting Plans that do not have dedicated IP
address)
CGI
We have numerous
customizable cgi scripts that have been pre-installed on the server
for you to use with your own account. The only thing you'll need to
do is select the script you are interested in using, select the
colors, style etc., and click the "Make HTML" button. You can then
paste the HTML output into any of your HTML files to use that system
cgi program.